What Can the Diet of Gorillas Tell Us About a Healthy Diet for Humans?

What Can the Diet of Gorillas Tell Us About a Healthy Diet for Humans?: "One of the arguments proffered by vegetarians is that our primate ancestors were vegetarians and, to be healthy, we should eat the same kind of diet.

An article entitled 'The Western Lowland Gorilla Diet Has Implications For the Health of Humans and Other Hominids,' which appeared in a recent issue of Human and Clinical Nutrition, makes this argument. With reference to the authors' study of the vegetarian diet of gorillas, the research is sound, but to claim that humans would be better off with a vegetarian diet like that of the gorillas is spurious and equivocal."